6 x Globalstar-2

Name: Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat | 6 x Globalstar-2
Start: 2011-12-28T17:09:00+00:00
End: 2011-12-28T18:09:00+00:00
Location: 31/6

Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat

Launch Status

Success

Wed • Dec 28th, 2011
5:09 PM UTC

Type: Communications

The Globalstar second-generation constellation consists of 24 Low Earth Orbiting satellites for satellite phone and data communications.

1532 rockets have launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan.

Type: Commercial
Abbreviation: SSA

Country: FRA,RUS

Starsem is a French-Russian company that was created in 1996 to commercialise the Soyuz launcher internationally.